The Wrong Daughter

Dandy Smith

360 pages February 2024 copies in English Thriller

Represented by Thérèse Coen

The new highly addictive thriller from the Kindle Bestselling author with over 500,000 copies sold

“The phone starts vibrating in my hand. It’s my father. He never calls. Pulse racing in trepidation, I sit up in bed and answer. ‘Caitlin,’ he says. ‘You need to come to the house. Right now. It’s Olivia. She’s back.”

On the night when Caitlin and Olivia’s parents leave them to go to a dinner party, both girls are full of excitement about being old enough to stay home alone.

What they don’t see is the imposing figure, obscured by a Venetian mask, watching them through the open window. Who, after the girls have fallen asleep, will turn the handle of the unlocked back door and step into the sisters’ room.

When their parents return, they will find Olivia’s bed empty. Their eldest daughter gone. Never to return.

Until now.

But is the woman who has reappeared claiming to be Olivia really all she seems? Why does she not remember the nickname she’d invented for Caitlin, or the holiday cottage the family spent each summer in? And why does she keep avoiding questions about her abductor or about what happened on that fateful night?

Their family have dreamt of this moment for 16 years. But Olivia’s return and Caitlin’s doubts could be what destroys them…